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It's the dunk tank.

This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.

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I understand this to be an official endorsement of racism from the mod team at shitjustworks

Enjoy this attempt to find a single non-racist among our new friends

Edit: Mods are mass deleting comments lmao

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[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 79 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

certified record of good posting lea-blush

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago

Their mods seriously deleted your comment for that?! Wow just straight up defending actual WW2 Nazis

hitler-detector

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Woah, did not expect their users to defend racism that hard.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised. When the Western media declares a country the new bad guy of the week suddenly racism becomes magically fine if it's against 'bad country'. The same thing happened to Arabs during the 'war on terror'.

Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Incredible. Not a single person could even manage a weak ass freeze-peach argument against it.

Just pure frothingfash

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm not sure why we should stay federated with racists to be honest.

Especially when instead of doing any sort of self reflection their mods just start banning Hexbear users left and right... for being against racism. You can't make this shit up lmao data-laughing

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I argued before federating that allowing a comm with a openly racist header said a whole lot about the people that run the instance and the people who hang out there. Some people were inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt given that it is a small and inactive comm.

But I think the post shows that they'd rather try and own the tankies than condemn racism if the question is put to them point blank

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[–] edge@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

@glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org

Communists tried to kill my grandfather during WW2, what’s wrong about wanting to live?

Your grandpa deserved it.

stalin-gun-1stalin-gun-2

[–] Tomboys_are_Cute@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

I was initially mad that a mod removed that comment but the fact that the mirror comment is still there has me che-laugh

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

classic vid

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Since they're deleting all the HB posts I'll just post this for posterity chefs-kiss

[–] Bakzik@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)

After that, susage went to cry to the other comm michael-laugh

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

Lol this emoji is so cute hexbear-specter specter hexbear-specter

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I felt bad for this dude by the end

[–] Tomboys_are_Cute@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

Its like watching a 5 round fight where the loser never landed a punch. He had no framework to even contemplate a defence to what you were saying

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[–] SnAgCu@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

On the face of it it's so bloody unimportant - you can't post a picture of winnie the pooh? That is truly the most oppressed anyone has ever been in history.

And then you actually examine all of the articles they have - every single citation is just "reportedly" "allegedly" "this happened to one student" ass primary sources. I've never actually looked into this in depth until now (because I actually lived in China and of course saw the fucking bear everywhere), in my mind they had more convincing propaganda than that.

E.g.

“He’s propagating the issue, and frankly, I think he’s humiliated himself by being so childish about it,” says Deb Hoffmann, who holds the world record for the largest collection of Winnie the Pooh memorabilia. “If he would’ve just let it go, it would have died down by now. Plus, if the idiot knew anything, he would be delighted to be compared to Winnie the Pooh. After all, Winnie the Pooh is a very good-hearted, wonderful, thoughtful person. Being compared to Winnie the Pooh is actually quite the compliment!”

This may be the most guts-rage shit, how they invent reality and then react to what they imagined. The making up a guy to get mad at model of journalism. Also, this person quoted is literally just a collector of marketable slop? Why would I care what they think?

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[–] absentthereaper@lemmygrad.ml 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh, I see you learned about that gaggle of Anglo barbarians today. You have my sincerest condolences.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dunked pretty hard on programming.dev before and now sh.itjust.works is racing for first for liberal chuddery. surprised-pika

[–] WayeeCool@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

programming.dev actually has some pretty cool people that have real discussions after everyone gets to know each other. like we have had some heated threads but almost all of them have resulted in everyone eventually going "huh, learned something new today". They seem to be mostly nerdy internet forum types and that is super cool. startrek.website seems to be the same deal.

Now shit.just.works on the other hand seems to be a bunch of anime profile pic social media users who spout reactionary thought-killing bullshit. No attempt to better understand each other or even defend. Can't even just have a normal discussion about hobbies, entertainment, or tech without one of them jumping in to say something despicable then act outraged when someone asks "wtf, why can't you be normal".

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[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Federating with sh.it.piss.balls was even dumber than federating with the Wehraboos at lemm.pee.

Did our users vote in favor of this shit to prove that electoralism is a fuck? Because congratulations, you've proven once more that it is. We need more democratic centralism up in this mfer and defed that stain of an instance immediately, what the hell did you expect from this? Almost any not openly leftist sub that is fine federating us is some freeze-peach horseshit and will always have way too many reactionaries to let them in here. You privileged fucks could show a minimum of respect for the vulnerable part of our userbase that these people come to harass here, but no, actually taking care of your queer,neurodivergent and racialized comrades is too much when it inconveniences you by giving you less opportunity to "dunk on libs". Make an account there when you want to do that. Don't bring this here.

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey don't look at me, I voted against federating with them both times

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a token of gratitude, i award you two democracy spider stickers i-voted i-voted

This is literally the most benefit I've ever gotten out voting

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[–] kristina@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i think the admin team prob could use some expanding and to be faster to use the banhammer tbh. i dont think the admins are generally privileged though, a lot are trans too.

ive noticed a number of trans people on other instances popping into /c/traa at least, and some even made accounts because of /c/traa and it hitting their front page.

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[–] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Excellent work out there, Comrade!

fidel-salute

I'd brag, but honestly it was like

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You did a whole lot of scratching there. Including the mods lol. Interesting how mods on all those "leftist", "tolerant", "antiracist", "pro-LGBT" instances seems to be very tolerant to racism, fascism, homo- and transphobia, but will ban anyone pointing out that they are.

[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 1 year ago

I'm surprised they're still federated with us considering they made that community. I guess it's because they otherwise wouldn't be able to see our posts

[–] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

mmmm-mods help someone is here making me think about racism in my midst! remove this miscreant at once!

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Removed Comment by PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

morshupls

Liberals trying to explain how it's not racist to paint an Asian yellow.

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

Uncritical support to our Proacted posters war against reactionaries on lemmy fidel-salute-big

[–] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That Momo baby kept saying "time to die" and then deleted all the hexbears' comments. lmao

hope some of it was archives or screen-capped before the lil' baby moderator lost it

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